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Recent Examples of ostrich
It is named after a champion cutting horse and features ostrich vamps, goat quarters and roses stitched into the leather.
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Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
Each fixture looks like a big gray Lego block, with a round socket holding a bulb the size of an ostrich egg encased in a thick glass globe, like a gumball machine.
—Diego Lasarte, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Experimental reenactments suggested that, at Little Muck Shelter, trimming ostrich-eggshell beads before perforating them was slightly more successful than perforating before trimming.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
To a wild-card berth highlighted by Hedges’ smashing of an ostrich egg on the final weekend of the regular season, with yolk flying everywhere.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
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Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
Each fixture looks like a big gray Lego block, with a round socket holding a bulb the size of an ostrich egg encased in a thick glass globe, like a gumball machine.
—Diego Lasarte, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Experimental reenactments suggested that, at Little Muck Shelter, trimming ostrich-eggshell beads before perforating them was slightly more successful than perforating before trimming.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
To a wild-card berth highlighted by Hedges’ smashing of an ostrich egg on the final weekend of the regular season, with yolk flying everywhere.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ostrich
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Highway 550 plows below the southwestern edge of the Pueblo, known to its Native inhabitants as Tamaya; to the east and south, I-25 barrels along from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, impeding the movements of elk, pronghorn antelope, mountain lions, and other species.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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Eastern bongos are a species of antelope native to the mountainous forests of Kenya.—
Simone Jasper,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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That same day, Bindi took to social media to share some photos of her family in Las Vegas to honor her father, the late crocodile hunter.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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Novel island species elucidate a species complex of Neotropical crocodiles.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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Testing their ability to parse through patchy visual information, the puzzles prompted participants to identify ambiguous black-and-white images of objects and of animals, such as snakes, snails, and spiders.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
16 May 2025
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The exact location of the den complex are withheld for the snakes' safety, according to Bachhuber.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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In fact, the Endangered Species Act has produced some spectacular recovery successes, including the bald eagle, peregrine falcon, and American alligator.—
Pepper Trail,
Denver Post,
6 May 2025
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That could include birds and their eggs, from burrowing owls to songbirds, turtles and turtle eggs, frogs, crabs, fish, snakes, small mammals and even young alligators or crocodiles.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
3 May 2025
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After nearly three decades in Texas classrooms, Pauline Thompson is stepping into a new chapter — one that smells of jerk chicken, fresh thyme and home.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 May 2025
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The marinated turkey or chicken is stuffed into a French roll intended to soak up the recipe’s recaudo or marinade, along with slices of tomato, cucumber, radishes and sprigs of watercress.—
Daniel Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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And when she was seen at a recent UNC football practice, Hudson was sporting a snakeskin coat while chatting with Belichick on the sidelines.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Top looks out on the Tagus River, choppy and windy today, whitecaps blowing on the water like bumps on snakeskin.—
Dana Vachon,
Air Mail,
26 Apr. 2025
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Its glossy goatskin leather fabrication adds to the sumptuousness of it all.—
Alexis Bennett Parker,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025
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Creole chickens weave between our legs, a chunky pig snuffles across the dirt floor, and a dusty ginger cat snoozes on a goatskin chair.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Dec. 2024
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Read the full Scorpio Daily Horoscope Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Considering a sneak attack?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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Nike has other picks on sale—pretty much every category on their site has some kind of promotion going on—including a bunch of top-selling sneaks.—
Gina Vaynshteyn,
StyleCaster,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Ostrich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostrich. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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